Honor to you brother Andrea Fortunato. We hope that there is a football team in Heaven so you can continue to be happy, running after a ball.
Gianluca Vialli climbs the altar as Juventus captain, as a man and as a teammate. That young full-back who remembered Antonio Cabrini for his hair and the way he played is no longer there. At 23 he was unable to win the game against leukemia. It is April 25, 1995 , his Lady a month later will win that coveted championship after nine years of fasting. A year passes and that team will rise to the throne of Europe. Carrying inside the memory and the traces of that long-haired boy who ran along the band.
Almost a quarter of a century later, Andrea Fortunato relives in the words of those who knew him, in the clips of the matches in which he had made himself noticed so much that he deserved Juventus and the national team. And even the land of him did not remove the memory of him. Castellabate , a town in the Salerno area known for the film “Welcome to the South”, has decided to name a street after it. Via Andrea Fortunato will lead directly to the football museum dedicated to him. The announcement comes from the Polito Foundation , an active part in the dissemination of the blood passport for medical prevention among athletes. The mayor of the city, Costabile Spinelli , recalled the former Juventus player:
It was right to do it for what he has given to our football and for the values transmitted during his short career
. Young people may not know him. But it is right that they know who that promising talent was who was going up and down the band, running on that lawn that he had always dreamed of. Andrea Fortunato was born in Salerno on July 26, 1971. He grows up in the youth teams of Como , then launched in the first team by Eugenio Bersellini . Taken from Genoa , after a spell at Pisa , he stands out in the 1992-1993 season, together with another emerging player, Christian Panucci .
Noticed by Trapattoni , he makes the big leap inJuventus in the summer of 1993, the same in which a certain Alessandro Del Piero arrives in Turin . The first few months are very positive, a regular starter in the Juventus defense, he also scores a goal at the Olimpico against Lazio . He immediately forms a group with his teammates, becoming a great friend of Fabrizio Ravanelli, Gianluca Vialli and Antonio Conte . He is also called up for the national team by coach Sacchi for the match against Estonia. Then the first health problems that affect the performance. The ultras ignore the reason and contest him (then they will apologize) for his alleged attitude of a cleaner. There was something else behind that weariness that haunted him.
The diagnosis is clear: leukemia. Fortunato does not give up, he fights, he is only 23 years old but his head is firmly planted on his shoulders. The team is close to him, the therapy seems to rekindle hope. But that April 25, 1995 pneumonia was fatal to him. He is not even 24 years old, he throws the whole Juventus world into despair that in his drama relives that of Scirea , who died a few years earlier in a car accident. Gianluca Vialli remembers him at the funeral in the cathedral of Salerno.
The Napoli of Maradona and Careca are playing for the Scudetto against Milan of the Dutch. It is the thirtieth day of the championship, there are four to go. Standings: Milan 44, Naples 43. Sacchi ‘s rossoneri are involved in an all-area match in Bologna against Maifredi ‘s rossoblu . Bigon ‘s blues go to Bergamo. Both games are tight and nervous, the 0-0 does not fall apart. It is April 8, 1990 , and Atalanta against Napoli, which has gone down in history as Alemao’s coin.
At the “Dall’Ara”, with Lucio Dalla in the stands, the Milan defense makes up a mess with Filippo Galli and goalkeeper Andrea Pazzagli . There are a few minutes to 90 ‘. The ball thrown by Marronaroseems to have entered the door. But the Var and the Goal Line Technology are still very far away and the referee Tullio Lanese does not validate the goal. The linesman and Marcello Nicchi . Maifredi looks at the images in the Rai bus in the post game with Giampero Galeazzi . Berlusconi prefers not to comment, the match ends 0-0.
In Bergamo the result is the same. In the 75th minute, objects rained down from the stands, the Brazilian Neapolitan midfielder Alemao was hit in the head by a coin, it looked like a 100 lire (weighing 8 grams). Salvatore Carmando, a blue masseur, rushes into the field to help the player. The cameras frame the scene and intercept the unmistakable audio addressed to Alemao. “ Throw yourself, throw yourself on the ground ”. In those years, for such cases, the 0-2 at the table was taken for granted and Carmando knows it. The Neapolitan number 5 leaves the field and is replaced by Zola . The match ends 0-0, Napoli appeals and wins it. Milan instructed, in vain, lip experts to guess the words spoken by the masseur.
The two points of the victory go to Maradona and his teammates who grab the Rossoneri in the standings. It must be said that the federation wanted to compensate the company from Ferlainofor the ghost goal of Bologna. The Scudetto will be blue three weeks later, thanks to Milan’s 2-1 defeat in Verona. But that championship of billions was decided by a simple 100 lire coin .
Sergio Pellissier and Chievo Verona , a symbiotic relationship in which you talk about the player and think about the team. And viceversa. A bit like it happens with Totti and Roma , Del Piero and Juventus , Puyol and Barcelona , Raul and Real Madrid , Giggs and Manchester United , Lahm andBayern Munich .
The Chievo captain wore the Clivense shirt permanently from 2002 until the age of 40. It is the last bastion of the Delneri miracle team at the beginning of the 2000s. A peculiarity: he was the last active player to be included in the special ranking of the oldest scorers in Serie A, finishing in fifth place: the last goal for the clivensi arrived on January 27, 2019, in the match against Fiorentina valid for the 21st day of the championship, at the age of 39 years and 290 days. He can boast the title of top scorer in Serie A for Chievo, with 112 goals. He is also the player with the most goals in the Verona derby, no less than four.
6th place – In this special ranking he has underminedPaolo Maldini, now in sixth place. No less than 29 league goals, the last of which dates back to 30 March 2008 in the match against Atalanta at the age of 39 years and 278 days.
4th place – Francesco Totti can boast several records, just to stay on the subject and to name one: he is the oldest scorer in the history of the Champions League, with the last goal scored at 38 years and 59 days. He is also the second best scorer ever in Serie A, with the last goal arriving on 25 September 2016, in the match against Turin, two days before his fortieth birthday, in the away match at the “Olimpico Grande Torino” stadium against i grenade. He was 39 years old and 364 days old.
3rd place – Bronze medal for the Tsar, Peter Vierchowod.The last goal in the Italian championship was scored at 40 years and 47 days with the Piacenza shirt, the team with which he ended his career, on the last day of the 1998/99 championship, on 23 May 1999, in the drawn match 1- 1 against Salernitana.
2nd place – In second place the legendary Silvio Piola:and the best scorer ever in the history of the Italian league with 274 goals; and the player with the most goals in a single match in the Italian league, even 6; and he is also the best scorer in the history of Lazio with 149 goals. He also owns the third place among the best scorers with the Italian national team shirt. His last goal was scored at the age of 40 years and 131 days, on 7 February 1954 in a Novara-Milan match valid for the 19th matchday of the championship, which ended on a 1-1 result.
1st place – This special ranking is won by Alessandro Costacurtawhich marks the last goal of his career on the day of his retirement. On May 19, 2007, he stamped the goal that allowed him to be the oldest player ever to have scored in the top flight: 41 years and 25 days.
Liverpool Football club was founded on March 15, 1892
There is something magical, as well as irrational, in what happens at Anfield every moment before the triple whistle. May it be in Liverpool ‘s legendary comeback against Barcelona in the Champions League in which a 0-3 comeback 4-0 by a team without its best men cannot be explained. Or that it is a scorching exit from the tournament at the hands of Atletico Madric. There is something irreducibly romantic in the credits of thrilling evenings, with the curveKop singing. In such an elevated moment, for strong hearts and strictly reds, reason has no place. And so, as has been the case for half a century, in the stadium between the streets of the most famous band in the world, the hymn of a group semi unknown to most people is sung. While in the hated Manchester City side , in the cradle of Oasis with the Gallagher brothers, the first supporters of Aguero and Guardiola , Hey Jude by the Beatles resounds at the Etihad Stadium .
The other Beatles
Before hastily dismissing it as yet another case of Nemo prophet at home (in the case of Liverpool), we need to go back in time. And understand why You’ll never walk alone has become the song of belonging to an entire people. And to say that this profane psalm comes from further away. From the United States and a Broadway musical, Carousel , in 1945, written and sung by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein .
Fifteen years later the song was performed by one of the many bands that flourished on the Mersey Side , from the Beatles down . Gerry and the Pacemakers, of the brothers Gerry and Fred Marsden, became the alter egos of the Fab Four for a few years. In the early 1960s they had the same manager ( Brian Epstein ), the same producer ( George Martin ), the same photographer (Dezo Hoffmann) and even the same tailor (Dougie Milins).
Not just Liverpool
The group often performed on the same billboard and in the same local concerts as the Beatles. Their first three singles (How do you do it
– proposed by Martin to the Beatles but then discarded – I like it and You’ll never walk alone) top the British charts. Record equaled in the 1980s by the Frankie Goes to Hollywood , also from Liverpool. In 1963, when YNWAwas at the head of the UK hits, at Anfield it was customary to sing the hottest songs of the moment. He also happened with you she loves you by Lennon McCartney.
But You’ll Never Walk Alone had an overwhelming effect. A wave that has never stopped and has also spread to other clubs (from Celtic Glasgow to Borussia Dortmund and Feyenoord ). The fame of Gerry and his group soon turned into a meteor. However, a meteor that has become history thanks to Liverpool, Kop and from yesterday also thanks to Klopp .
In Liverpool they were the Beatles’ most formidable rivals. I remember well how anxiously we waited for the results of the polls from the local newspaper, hoping to scrape together the points needed to beat them. That’s where we were! (Paul McCartney)
About eighty years ago the streets of Vienna were lined with mourning. Maybe 40 thousand people, maybe 15 thousand. They walk there, in the Austrian cold, in procession, to pay homage to the greatest Austrian footballer ever. The Mozart of football, also known as Cartavelina. On January 23, 1939, Matthias Sindelar and his wife, the Italian Jewish teacher Camilla Castagnola , are found lifeless in their apartment .. The official version speaks of a gas leak (carbon monoxide poisoning), others advance the thesis of suicide, still others the determining role of the Gestapo . A suspicious death. The Austrian police quickly file the case, the file on his death mysteriously disappears into thin air.
But Sindelar was more than just the “football player who committed suicide”. And he was much more than just an athlete. He was born in 1903 in Kozlov, Moravia, on the border with Slovakia. Difficult childhood, he suffers from hunger, and orphan of a father who died in World War I. His frail physique does not prevent him from kicking the ball, barefoot because the shoes were used for more important things . A manager of theHertha Vienna , enraptured by Matthias’ extraordinary skill with dribbling. Atypical, elegant center forward, he loves assists and good football, he often goes up to midfield to set up the action. A Mozart of the ball , as the coach and coach Hugo Meisl calls him .
He passes to the Amateur Wiener (current Austria Vienna) where he definitely explodes. He wins two European Cups, a hat-trick of him stretches the Ambrosiana Inter in the final . He is the star of the Wunderteam , the Austrian national team of wonders, which between 1931 and 1933 won 12 games out of 16. Against the German rivals there is no match: Sindelar wins 5-0 and 6-0 in two games against Germany. This is followed by a 2-1 to Italy and an 8-2 to Hungary . Against England at Stamford Bridge Austria loses 3-4 but Mozart scores a goal dribbling practically all the opponents. An ante litteram Maradona .
In the semifinal of the Italian World Cup in 1934, Mathias was repeatedly hit by the fouls of the blue -born Luisis Monti , without an overly home referee committing anything. Sindelar was injured in that match, Austria lost 2-1 and placed fourth. It is precisely in the rehabilitation that the champion meets his future wife, Camilla Castagnola , an Italian translator.
They live in Vienna which in 1938 suffered the Anschluss, the Nazi annexation to make Greater Germany . Austria becomes a province of the Third Reich with the name of Ostmark . On April 3, 1938, to celebrate the new German conquest, the game of reunification was played at the Prater in Vienna . Ostmark challenge Germany, before the merger between the two teams. The pan-Germanization of the ball, wanted by Hitler with a single representative with the swastika on the shirt . The Anschluss also of football. Sindelar plays his last match with the Austrian national team. The uniform is the historic one, red and white, strongly desired by Matthias.
It is the only concession that the Gestapo makes.The Austrians, in fact, had the order to lose in order to enhance the sporting virtues of the Nazis on the pitch. Sindelar is not there and plays perhaps his best game of him. He runs, dribbles, makes fun of his opponents. He scores a goal, rejoices right under the SS police stand, makes Karl Sesta score another . Austria wins 2-0 . The ceremonial now imposes the Nazi salute addressed to the Reich hierarchs. But both Sindelar and Sesta refuse to raise their outstretched arm . They are the only ones not doing Sieg Heil with the next Heil Hitler.
At the subsequent World Cup in France, the German coach Sepp Herbergherhe wants him in the Reich national team. Mathias refuses, for the second time in a few months, the Nazi call. He’s too old and injured, he says. He retires shortly after, opens a bar with his Camilla before that January 23, 1939. Perhaps a suicide, perhaps a double murder. The truth will never be known. What remains true is that No repeated twice that Matthias Sindelar , the Mozart of football, said to Adolf Hitler.
Mathias SIndelar. Austrian phenomenon. He scores in Aus-Ger. Vince. He doesn’t give the “salute” to the Nazis. Murdered with his wife. pic.twitter.com/zgBjXv0QRo
– Sportellate.it (@Sportellate_it) January 27, 2014
Why go hard uphill
To shorten my agony
Marco Pantaniit was above all this. A lonely man, on the run from himself. Fleeing from the group to finish first uphill. When an artist dies prematurely, even of the bicycle, the celebratory rhetoric transforms the person into a myth. The man in hero. Pantani, on the other hand, took the opposite path. For the first time he went fast downhill: he brought the champion back to being just a man. And a lonely man.
Marco, standing on the pedals from Cesenatico
The Pirate was one of my first childhood idols. Loved and hated. Catalyst of my May afternoons, when books and notebooks could wait. There was the Giro, there was Adriano De Zan, there was a wait to be consumed strenuously. Waiting for a signal, for a click. Today mountain hike, everyone was waiting for him. At home with papa or fans on the streets. Says Riccardo Magrini , of Eurosport:
A bit like when Italy plays at the World Cup
The cap flew away, he who gets up on the pedals. “Snap Pantani,” De Zan’s strangled voice announced the moment. He have left. And there was none for anyone. From Aprica in 1994 to Alpe d’Huez to Galibier in an epic afternoon. And then Oropa, 1999. Gianni Mura
writes :
Because, like the old cyclists, he did his own thing in the race, he did not use the heart rate monitor and when he trained in his parts he drank at the fountains and ate bread and pecorino.But
he was a man because his face betrayed the signs of his ordeal, of his agony, of his via crucis. Of his life always uphill. From the falls to Madonna di Campiglio . That day the Gazzetta headlined: «Mayhem Pantani». I had just returned from a Saturday of middle school, I didn’t even know what he meant “shock” but I knew that the Giro would not be the same. That cycling was not going to be the same.
From there it was a long whirling descent. He was not a saint, perhaps he was not the phenomenon we all imagined on a bicycle. I don’t care today to know. Marco Pantanihe got back in the saddle and got off the pedals. He gave emotions. He died in solitude on Valentine’s Day. And that is a wound that won’t heal. Because, like Gianni Mura:
I would have preferred to see him grow old, and drink a glass of Sangiovese with him, somewhere in his hills
At the beginning of November 2008 Alessandro Del Piero is 33 years old, and about to make 34 on the 9th. ‘and an appointment of those marked in red on the calendar or saved in the smartphone agenda. On 5 November Claudio Ranieri ‘s Juventus goes to the Santiago Bernabeu. That stadium, as well as Manchester, Munich or Barcelonaand one of the times of European football. The thrilling Champions League is played there and Del Piero knows how to do it. Protagonist of Lippi ‘s first and second Juve , he has already won the trophy in 1996 in Rome. However, he lost three finals that still burn (1997, 1998, 2003).
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After the Calciopoli scandal in 2006, Juve returned to Europe in that season thanks to the third place in the league gained the year before. Of the dominating team in Italy remained, in addition toDel Piero, Buffon, Nedved, Camoranesi, Trezeguet, Chiellini . The bianconeri are trying to return to their former glory, they have bought Amauri from Palermo, in midfield there is Tiago coming from Chelsea with the Malian Sissoko , in defense a rock like the Viking Mellberg .
In the Champions League, after eliminating Artmedia from Bratislava in the preliminaries, they ended up in group H with Real Madrid, Zenit St. Petersburg and Bate Borisov . Juve have a great qualifying round, qualify in first place, beat Zenit and Real at home and live their night of glory on November 5th.
Santiago Bernabeu, it was said. Madrid has the eternal Raul as captain, Casillas in goal, Fabio Cannavaro in defense alongside the young Sergio Ramos and Marcelo . The blancos, in search of the “tithe” that will win only in 2014, are coached by the German Schuster . The attacking department is made up of Sneijder , the aforementioned Raul and the Dutch Van Nistelrooij , who arrived in Spain after years of scoring with United. In the second half, in the twentieth minute, a very young Gonzalo Higuain , 21 years old at the time, will also enter. Drenthe, who will be one of the best, replaces the injured Robben at the last minute.
The blancos start on the attack, but Madama does not take great risks all in all. Drenthe rages on the wing, Van Nistelrooij looks for the right twist, but does not create much. At the first real opportunity, Juve passes. Guti loses the ball, Marchionni recovers and serves Del Piero in midfield. The captain approaches the opponent’s penalty area, places the left from 20 meters as a free kick in motion, goal. 0-1 and bianconeri ahead. In the second half, Madrid ahead of the white weapon, Ranieri’s team dances a little behind but holds. At 67 ‘there is an ideal free-kick for Del Piero , on the center left at 25 meters fromCasillas . The Spanish goalkeeper places the barrier very badly, the Juventus captain takes advantage of it and goes to sign a memorable double.
He would also have time to take the ball home, but the hat-trick is only close. Claudio Ranieri , when the time is up, decides to give a well-deserved and unforgettable standing ovation to his number 10, replaced by De Ceglie . The Santiago Bernabeu responds and stands up to applaud. Even Maradona in the stands claps his hands for Del Piero. Juve thus qualified for the round of 16 two days early. She will then be eliminated from Chelsea in March 2009.
Say Gelindo Bordinand a world opens up. The winning race of the Italian athlete at the Seoul Olympics ’88 is one of the key images of the fabulous Eighties. There are Marco Tardelli ‘s scream and Madonna ‘s Like a Virgin , Ronald Reagan and Gorbaciov , the Berlin Wall and Holly and Benji , Papa Woytyla and Back to the Future , Maradona’s Napoli and Live Aid . And then there is Gelindo, caught between the uniqueness of his name and that winning progression that ends with the kiss of the track.
Bordin in 1988 is 29 years old, a year earlier he won the bronze medal of the World Cup in Rome. In 1986 and champion of Europe in Stuttgart. He arrives in Korea with good sensations, he is also in the favorites grid.
Sunday 2nd October: the race is intense, but exhausting, it is run with a humidity of 75%. At the 31st kilometer Bordin tries to escape but is caught. He comes alive when a quartet comes off and leads, we are at the 36th kilometer. Ahmed Salah from Djibouti, tank top no. 236. Takeyuki Nakayama , Japanese, no 635. Gelindo Bordin , tank top number 579. Douglas Wakiihuri , Kenyan, no 675. Italy follows the blue match with the voices of Paolo Rosi and Attilio Monettilive on Raidue.
Nakayama feels fatigue and loses ground. Three remain, exactly the same as in the 1987 world championships in which Wakiihuri had triumphed. At the 38th km he attacks Salah, Wakiihuri repels the blows, Bordin defends himself but is more detached. The rider from Longare is tenacious, however, and does not give up, he maintains a constant pace. 40mokm, Wakiihuri misses, Bordin takes him back and focuses on the tread. In the commentary there is already talk of a silver medal as a great result.
«Come on Gelindo, come on Gelindo!» Exclaims Rosi. And Gelindo flies, “he is chasing him”, reaches Salah and passes him easily. Bordin’s race is all projected towards the entrance to the Olympic stadium. The last 1500 meters are the well-deserved catwalk of an extraordinary athlete, who with those haunted eyes anticipates a bit the Toto Schillaci of Italia ’90.
He enters the venue smiling, enjoying the first triumph of an Italian athlete in an Olympic marathon. Dorando Petri is sportingly avenged. Gelindo Bordin closes the race in 2h 5 ’30’ ‘, kneels exhausted, kisses the track. Wakiihuri comes second, Salah only third. «Thanks Gelindo», repeats a moved Paolo Rosi, voice of an entire people.
Gelindo Bordin at the 1988 Seoul Olympics
Senegal Tunisia and Algeria Nigeria. These are the semifinals of the African Cup, scheduled for July 14th. The last two quarter-finals have completed the draw of who will play a place for the final on 19 July. Tunisia gets rid of the Madagascar surprise in the second half, while Algeria need penalties to get the better of the Ivory Coast.
Madagascar Tunisia 0-3
Together with Benin it was the surprise of this edition of the tournament. Madagascar had attracted sympathy for its role as under dog in these quarter-finals. And to think that Nicolas Dupuis’ team had also started well in the match, worrying the Tunisian goal with Nomenjanahary. The game is released and is decided in the second half: in the 52nd minute Sassi mocked goalkeeper Adrien from Madagascar thanks to a fortuitous deviation from Fontaine. Eight minutes later Tunisia closed the accounts with Msakni, while Sliti sealed the match in the 93rd minute. A perhaps liar result that penalizes Madagascar beyond measure. Tunisia returns to a semi-final of the African Cup since 2004, when they then won that edition.
Ivory Coast – Algeria 1-1 (4-5 ad)
Throbbing race in Suez between Ivorians and Algerians. At 20 ‘there is the advantage of the Volpi in the desert with Feghouli. In the second half, Algeria have the great opportunity to double with a penalty in the 48th minute wasted by Bounedjah, who hits the crossbar. Wrong goal, goal conceded and the Ivory Coast is equal in the 62nd minute with Kodjia. Match blocked, minutes pass and the fear of losing crosses both Kessie’s and Bennacer’s squads, probable future teammates in Giampolo’s Milan. We go to penalties: the Rossoneri midfielder makes no mistake, like the Neapolitan Ounas. The decisive mistakes of the Ivory Coast with Bony and Die make the only penalty wrong on the other side with Belaili vain.
Algeria flies to the semifinals, the party of its many fans resident in France (about two million) turns into tragedy in Montpellier where a woman is hit by the car of an Algerian who has lost control of the vehicle. Police arrested the man while the victim’s son is in serious condition in hospital.
Semi-finals
July 14, Cairo, 6pm: Senegal Tunisia (direct Dazn)
July 14, Cairo, 9pm: Algeria Nigeria (direct Dazn)
After the surprises reserved for the round of 16, the Africa Cup quarterfinals did not reserve any twists in the first two games. As expected, Senegal and Nigeria advance, first qualifying in the semifinals. Benin and South Africa return home, punishers of the superfavorites Morocco and Egypt in the previous round. But they weren’t for granted, far from it. It took lucky deviations in the 90 ‘and numerical superiority in the final to ensure the passage of the turn to the teams of Mane and Iwobi.
Senegal Benin
There was great anticipation in Cairo for the first quarter-final between Senegal and Benin. A curiosity dictated by the sensational feat accomplished by Michel Dussuyer’s team in the round of 16. This time the underdogs were respected, but Koulibaly’s national team had to wait for the 70th minute to unlock the match. Before there had been a lot of balance, with Benin very attentive and organized on the pitch. The Senegalese goalkeeper of Spal. Gomis, is likely to combine it big with a postponement that was about to turn into an author. Then the Mane Gueye combination leads to the Everton player’s decisive goal. In the final Benin closes in 10 for the expulsion of Verdon. Senegal now awaits the winner of Madagascar Tunisia in the semifinals.
Nigeria South Africa
A game in the balance until 89 ‘when a lucky detour by Trost-Ekong sends the Nigerians to Heaven and condemns the South Africans to a painful mockery. Before, the two teams had been fighting from the start. The first half is very intense, but not very spectacular. Nigeria moved on in the 27th minute thanks to a dirty shot by Chukwueze. South Africa postpones their recovery intentions to the second half: Williams’ saves allow the Bafana Bafana to stay in the match and find a draw with Zungu in the 71st minute after a Var check on a possible offside. When extra time seemed at the gates, Williams missed the exit and Udinese defender Trost-Ekong deflected the ball with his knee, just enough to guarantee the passage of the round to Nigeria. The opponent of the semifinal will come out of the confrontation between Ivory Coast and Algeria.
Quarter-finals
Senegal-Benin 1-0
Nigeria-South Africa 2-1
July 11: Ivory Coast-Algeria, Suez, 6pm, direct Dazn
July 11: Madagascar-Tunisia, Cairo, 9pm, live Dazn
Semifinals
July 14 , Cairo, 6 pm: Senegal wins Madagascar Tunisia (direct Dazn)
July 14, Cairo, 9 pm: Nigeria wins Ivory Coast Algeria (direct Dazn)